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MATCH DIPPING MACHINE.

No. 277,462. Patented May 15,1883.

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MATCH DIPPING MACHINE. No. 277,462. Patented May 15,1883.

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THOMAS A. COOK, or. OTTAWA, ONTARIO, AND FELIX LABELLE, or HULL,

QUEBEC, CANADA.

MATCH-Dll PlNG MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 277,462, dated May 15, 1883. j Applicatlon tiled November 22, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: 7

Be it known that we, THOMAS A. UOOK, of the city of Ottawa, in the Province of Ontario, and FELIX LABELLE, of Hull, in the Province of Quebec, both Provinces oi'Oanada, have invented a new and useful llfatch-Dip inng Machine, of which the following is a specification. Our invention relates to machinery used in the manufacture ot' 1natch es, and has for its in object the construction of a machine for automatically dipping matches-that is to say, a machine for applying the sulphur and compo sition to the end of the match-splints after they have been cut and placed in racks.

Figure 1 is a front elevation of our new machine. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of the same, and Fig. 3 is a top view or plan.

Our machine consists, essentially, of a suitable frame-work, to which the various parts of the machine are secured, and its principal parts are a furnace with hot-plate to dry and heat the ends of the splints to be dipped, a trough containing liquid sulphur, also placed on a-furnace to keepit hot, and,'lastly, a trough 2 orreceptaclecontainingthecomposition. Endless chains or bands are mounted upon suitable pulleys or rollers to carry the match-racks along and through the various processes. 1 A is the frame of the machine.

F is an ordinary furnace for heating the hotplate H, placed on it and near the upper surface of the machine. I is another furnace, upon which the sulphur-trough S is placed to keep the sulphur contained in it hot and in a liquid condition. F is still another furnace, on which is placed a trough or receptacle, 0, containing what is known as the compositiou.

P p P P p are three sets of pulleys, 40 mounted upon suitable shafts, s ,8? s, over which run the endless chains or bands E It E, which carry the match-racks along the machine. Each set of rollers is geared to the adjacent set by means of spur-wheels having an 5 intermediate carrier between them, in order to obtain the right direction of the movements of the chains or bands.

W is a spur-wheel mounted upon the shafts s of the last pair of the first set of pulleys, P,

o gearing into the carrier-wheel 10 mounted upon the shaft .9 and imparting motion to the spur-wheel W mounted upon the shafts ofthe first pair of pulleys in the set P. Upon the shaft 8 carrying the last pair in the second set of pulleys, P is mounted the spur-wheel W imparting motion to the first pair in the third set of pulleys, P by means of the car rier-wheelw", mounted upon a shaft, 5 all the shafts being mounted in suitable bearings. The faces of the pulleys P I P are suitably prepared for bands or chains, as the case may be. The spaces occurring between adjacent pairs of pulleys belonging to different sets are bridged over in a line with the chains or bands E E E by the plates 1). The racks are passed over the plates 1) by the action of each on the one in advance, forcing the same ahead.

I? is the drivingpulley, by meansot' which motion is imparted to the pulleys l? P P and endless bands E E E The composition-trough (J is provided near its bottom with a roller, It, nearly or wholly immersed in thecomposition, its journals being provided, if necessary, with suitable stuffing-boxes. A cylinder, 1%, is mounted near 7 the top of the trough. This cylinder is heated by steam, being of suitable construction for this purpose, and having its journals made hollow, and running in suitable glands or striding-boxes, U, for the entrance and exhaust of the steam. It receives motion by means of 'a driving-pulley, P", and belt 13, driven from some convenient point, such as the pulleyp. On this cylinder 1t and roller R is mounted a pair of endless chains, E, to 8 which an endless apron, 6; consisting of a suitable material-such. as thin sheet metal-4s secured in such a manner thatthe said apron does not touch the surface of the cylinder and roller, being attached to that edge or face of the chain opposite to that which is in contact with the surface of the cylinder and roller. In close proximity to the uppermost portion of the apron e a small steam-jet, J, is placed, for the purpose of keeping such portion of it 5 as is not immersed in the composition moist when the machine is stopped,'to preventit from tiring on restarting the machine.

F is a fan driven by a belt from a suitable point, such as the pulley p The blast pro- .duced by thisfan is conducted through suitable tubing, 15, to a distributer, T, provided with suitable perforations, and so placed as to play upon the ends of the match-splints that have been dipped in the sulphur during their passage from the sulphur-pan S to the composition-trough C.

M is the rack containing the match-splints, consisting of cross-grooved plates m, wedged in a suitable frame, and holding the matchsplints m at one end, so as to project at the other.

The machine operates as follows: The rack M is placed upon the hot-plate H, so that the ends of the frame M rest upon the endless chains or hands E, which, being set in motion, will carry the same and any other number of racks that may be successively placed there along the machine, first over the hot plate, where the ends of the match-splints m are well dried and heated, ready to receive the sulphur, into which they are dipped after leaving the hot-plate, the slack of the chains E allowing the rack M to sag sufficiently for that purpose. ()n passing from the sulphurpan they are exposed to the air-blast from the distributer T, and finally pass over the surface of the apron c. which, dipping into and being charged with composition, applies the same to the ends of the match-splints, and thus completes the matches, the racks containing them being then removed from the machine.

\Ve claim as our invention- 1. In a match-machine, the combination of a furnace and a naked or exposed drying-plate heated thereby, a second furnace provided with a sulphurpan, a third furnace provided with a composition-pan and mechanism for delivering the composition, and means, substantially as described, adapted to convey the match-trays over the drying-plate, the sulphur-pan, and the composition-pan, successively,\v hereby the splints may he successively dried, dipped in sulphur, and dipped in the igniting compound, and the heat graduated in each of the furnaces independently of the others, as required.

2. The combination of a frame, A, furnaces F 1* F hot-plate H, sulphur-pan S, composition-trough O, roller It, cylinder R, apron 0, sets of pulleys I P P spur-wheels and carriers I W \7 W to 10 endless bands or chains E E E steam-jet J, and fan I with tubes and distributer T.

3. In combination with a match-dipping ma chine, a steam-heated cylinder, R, and roller R, upon which is mounted an endless apron, e, dipping into the composition, and secured to an endless chain, E, by which the apron is kept off the surface of the cylinder and roller, the cylinder and roller suitablyjournaled in the composition-trough.

4a In combination with the-composition-applying mechanism of a match-dipping machine, a steam-jet, J, for the purpose of keeping moist those parts not immersed in the composition during the time the machine is stopped.

5. In combination with amatch-dipping machine, a fan, F, tubing t, and perforated distributer 'I, for the purpose of playing upon and cooling the match-splintsafter being dipped in sulphur.

6. In a match-machine, the combination of a tray or vat to receive the composition, an endless apron acting therein, and a hollow steam-heated roll sustaining said apron, as described and shown.

7. The combination of the following elements: a drying-furnace, a compositionpan, an air-delivery device, a composition-furnace provided with delivery mechanism, and conveyers, substantially as described, for autotomatieally delivering the match-frame to said mechanisms in the order named.

8. In a match-machine, the combination, of

a drying-furnace, a sulphur-pan, and composition-pan with the three pairs of endless belts and the intervening plates, 1), whereby the matches are presented to the three fur- I naces in succession.

T. A. COOK. F. LABELLE.

In presence of- J. COURSOLLE, L. H. OLIVIER. 

